On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Ankit Srivastava <ankit.sunca at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 on my laptop which is connected to the > internet from our university's proxy server. The details of the server are > as follows: > > HTTP Proxy: hostelproxy.daiict.ac.in Port: 3128 > The proxy server requires authentication using our Student IDs and passwords > > i have configured my firefox and System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy with > the above proxy. The net is working fine and i am able to browse all the > websites. > > I wanted to install openoffice, netbeans, sunstudio etc using the following > commands > pkg install openoffice > pkg install netbeans ... given at > http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/instdevsoft.html > > When i run the above command, I get the following error: > > ankit at ankit:/$ pkg install openoffice > Creating Plan -Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/pkg", line 1440, in ? [...]> NameError: could not retrieve manifest > 'openoffice at 2.4.0%2C5.11-0.86%3A20080424T104839Z' from > 'http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80'
That manifest seems to be present: http://pkg.opensolaris.org/info/0/openoffice at 2.4.0,5.11-0.86:20080424T104839Z Did you try running pkg refresh ? The IPS package for OpenSolaris is badly done. It is one big monolithic bundle of 420+MB. IMHO there should be multiple packages one for each component. It is just not practical for users in geographically distant locations to pull huge bundles from pkg.opensolaris.org. The OpenOffice IPS package does not make sense for users outside the US unless one is sitting on multi-MBPS fat pipes. I had submitted a bug for this but that is just lying in the bug database. I feel you are better off downloading the install bundle from OpenOffice.ORG even though that is also a monolithic bundle you can at least use a download manager. In addition surprisingly the install bundle in just 169MB in size even though it contains all the components! Since OpenSolaris still includes the SVR4 packaging you will be able to install it. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
